Dangers are light, if they seem light; and more dangers have
deceived men than forced them.
- [Cowards]

Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more
dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better
to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near,
than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man
watch too long it is odds he will all fast asleep.
- [Danger]

Death * * * openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth
envy.
- [Death]

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain
him is not at home.
- [Death]

Decided cases are the anchors of the law, as laws are of the
state.
- [Law]

Discourse ought to be as a field, without coming home to any man.
- [Egotism]

Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom; for it
asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell
truth, and to do it; therefore, it is the weaker sort of
politicians that are the greatest dissemblers.
- [Dissimulation]

Do not overwork the mind any more than the body; do everything
with moderation.
- [Mind]

Dramatical or representative poesy is, as it were, a visible
history; for it sets out the image of things as if they were
present.
- [Drama]

Even reproof from authority ought to be grave, and not taunting.
- [Authority]

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen,
and drowns things weighty and solid.
- [Fame]

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of
another.
- [Behavior]

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily
believes.
- [Belief]

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and
the fort of reason.
- [Fortitude]

Fortune his like the market, where many times, if you can stay a
little, the price will fall.
- [Fortune]

Fortune is like a market where many times if you wait a little
the price will fall.
- [Fortune]

Founders and senators of states and cities, lawgivers, extirpers
of tyrants, fathers of the people, and other eminent persons in
civil government, were honored but with titles of worthies or
demigods; whereas such as were inventors and authors of new arts,
endowments, and commodities towards man's life, were ever
consecrated among the gods themselves.
- [Invention]